55 in/lbs is 4.58 ft/lbs so instead of being dead exact and buying another torque wrench bring em up snug. It is meant not to crush or break the gasket when tightening down the bolts. So just snug them all in a circular direction and then just check one more time. Hopefully that helps.

I did mine recently and it had the cork/rtv gasket and I opted for the $40 Felpro reusable gasket that doens't need RTV/adhesive. It took me the better of 2 hours scraping that crap off the valve cover. If I even have to crack open my cover again I can justify the gasket not only because its reuasble but time and energy it saves and headache of cleaning up after the old one. If you can swing it I'd get the Felpro one.

I did mine recently and it had the cork/rtv gasket and I opted for the $40 Felpro reusable gasket that doens't need RTV/adhesive. It took me the better of 2 hours scraping that crap off the valve cover. If I even have to crack open my cover again I can justify the gasket not only because its reuasble but time and energy it saves and headache of cleaning up after the old one. If you can swing it I'd get the Felpro one.

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Well worth it in my opinion, just like getting Lube Lockers for the diffs.

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If you measure 10 or 15 ft lbs and compare that to guessing you will be amazed at how much too tight you have been going, why there are so many broken bolts and so many leaking ccovers and pans. After you get the feel it's way less than 1/4 grunt.